222322 - GTK1 and GTK2+XFT versions of Firefox & Mozilla should both be equally easy to download

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Keith Lea]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

I think the download link for the Linux Firebird should not point to the GTK1
builds because they look terribly ugly, and I think most people have GTK2.
Perhaps the Linux download link should point to a page explaining the two
versions. Until such a page is created, I suggest making two links on the front
page, one for something like "Basic Linux" and another for "Linux/GTK2". Maybe
the OS should be detected better (can it be?), because you know if the user has
RH8+, for example, he has GTK2.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Daniel Wang]

This is also pointed out in bug 205390. Font smoothing problem is a frequent
complaint in newsgroup. Is there any reason why we keep linking to gtk1 builds?

I'd like to change this, but I need two reviews

Comment 2

[Daniel Wang]

*** Bug 239312 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

related (and possibly dupe): bug 245997
I heard somewhere that we don't link to xft version because it's not stable.

Comment 4

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

As for Firefox this is already fixed (Firefox link for Linux is by default the
gtk2 version) and Thunderbird is officially available only in the gtk2 version,
so for the "aviary" programs this bug is fixed.

Bug 245997 was filed for SeaMonkey GTK 2 builds.

Comment 5

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

reassigning endico's bugs to default owner

Comment 6

[Felix Miata]

Attachment: patch

Adding GTK1 to the Linux link should indirectly reduce the complaints about
ugly fonts, leading people to try the "Other Systems & Languages" link that
leads to the XFT/GTK2 contrib builds those users actually need.

Comment 7

[Felix Miata]

a=asa via IRC on attachment 159265 [details] [diff] [review]

Comment 8

[Felix Miata]

checked in via doctor

Comment 9

[Felix Miata]

This was fixed at checkin. The page has since been redesigned. Marking fixed anyway.